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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Satellite Forms Three-pointed Star In The Sky
Following the launch of
ESA's SMOS satellite on Nov.
2, the French space agency
CNES, which is responsible
for operating the satellite,
... > full story
Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
Is there such a thing as
"weather" on Mars? There are
some doubts, considering the
planet's atmosphere is only
1 percent as dense as that
of the Earth. Mars, however,
definitely has clouds,
... > full story
Navy Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
Launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., aboard
an United Launch Alliance
Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct.
18, 2009, the Special Sensor
Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSU ... > full story
SMOS Satellite Successfully Launched: First-ever Satellite To Attempt To Measure Ocean Salinity From Space
A rocket carrying the
European Space Agency's Soil
Moisture and Ocean Salinity
satellite blasted off
successfully today. SMOS is
... > full story
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Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare
November 6, 2009 — The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September of 2009 was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have reviewed the numbers and ... > full story -
Calm Before The Spawn: Climate Change And Coral Spawning
November 4, 2009 — Biologists have explained why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months. A new study shows that corals spawn when regional wind ... > full story -
Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity Satellite Ready For Launch
October 29, 2009 — A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday November 2 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean ... > full story -
Weather Patterns Help Predict Dengue Fever Outbreaks
October 27, 2009 — High temperatures, humidity and low wind speed are associated with high occurrence of dengue fever according to a new ... > full story -
Urban Growth Versus Global Warming
October 22, 2009 — Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming. A new study ... > full story -
Seismic Noise Unearths Lost Hurricanes
October 20, 2009 — Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic -- by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap ... > full story -
Climate Change Threatens Rice Production
October 19, 2009 — Once-in-a-lifetime floods in the Philippines, India's delayed monsoon, and extensive drought in Australia are taking their toll on this year's rice crops, demonstrating the vulnerability of rice to ... > full story -
Survey Data Supports Rapid Ice Loss: Largely Open Arctic Seas In Summer Within 10 Years
October 15, 2009 — The Arctic Ocean sea ice is thinning, new data show, supporting the emerging thinking that the Ocean will be largely ice-free during summer within a ... > full story -
18th Century Ships' Logs Predict Future Weather Forecast
October 6, 2009 — Historical naval logbooks are being used for the first time in research into climate change. The logbooks include famous voyages such as the Beagle, Cook’s HMS Discovery and Parry’s polar ... > full story -
Panama Butterfly Migrations Linked To El Niño, Climate Change
October 6, 2009 — A 16-year study of tropical butterfly migration links a global climate pattern, El Niño, to local increases in plant production and peak ... > full story
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